The science
of imagining solutions: design becoming conscious of itself through
design (PhD project)
This dissertation addresses a paradox in design: we currently
live in a day and age that is fundamentally conditioned by artifice
on all scales, and principled by a deep sense of contingency and
possibility. In this world, anything could always be something
else. Design is a discipline uniquely capable of configuring
artifice, instantiating it into a stream of different design
artefacts that we are able to interact with. Beyond the comfort,
joy and meaning these artefacts might bring to our lives, design in
this way uniquely captures and shows forth possibility, not only on
the scale of individual products, services etc., but also on the
level of the artificial, in other words speaking directly to our
contemporary human existence, to the sense of
possibility as such.
Supervisors: Johan Redström (Umeå Institute of
Design, Umeå University) and Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Institute of
Technology).
Areas of interest: Critical design practices
incl. speculative and critical design, design fictions,
pataphysics, the relationship between design & science, data
privacy, urban walking, design failures, design anthropology.
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